Glactic Civil War Restored

Description
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This mod is intended to return the Main Campaign from EAW to the FOC expansion pack. With a minor number of irreparable glitches and over two years of work and lone beta-testing, this mod succeeds in living up to its title of GCW Restored
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What a great idea. I've only played the first 2 levels on the Empire campaign, but it's very nice. Having FOC graphics for the EAW campaign is wonderful. I'm looking forward to getting further and using FOC units.

NOTE: When loading this up, it is found under Galactic Conquest, not under Campaign.

A couple of things I did to make it more playable: I put the files in my mods folder. You need to add the proper path of modsgcwdata... because it won't work without the data folder (I learned that the hard way). I also changed the mobile_defense_units.xml to make the tech_level 99 for all factions (but only do this if you run this as a mod, otherwise you will never be able to build MDU's).

Also, one thing I want to touch on before it becomes an issue. There are no legal problems with this mod as far as porting, etc. for two reasons. First, the original campaign files are included on the FOC disk, just not activated. Secondly, and this is the important one, you can't play FOC without having EAW installed on your system.

Finally, on a side note, why is this the closest thing I've ever seen to a campaign (I realize it is a campaign, but it's not original) released by the community? The map editor comes with instructions for campaign scripting, and I would love to see someone make a campaign with set out objectives and planets that are accessible over time. Maybe Thrawn era, or KotOR... but I digress.

I'm going to waste my whole work day playing through the vanilla campaigns again.
And I'm going to like it.

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